In November we focused our attention on “ Autumn theme”. During this month we spoke about autumn as as season and what happens in Autumn, how to dress up. We discussed why the leaves change their colour Our November Themes: Nocturnal Animals where we learnt their names, and how they look like, what they like eating. Day and Night. Kids were shown the difference between day and night and they.
OCTOBER In October we learnt about Fruits and Vegetables. Kids had chance to taste, touch, smell and distinguish the real fruits and vegetables their skin, size etc. and speak about them. During practical life activities we learnt that before eating fruits and vegetables are washed. They had chance to use knife to cut them into pieces and make a real fruit shake. Maths activities were connected with counting fruits and.
What did we learn during that period of time? We have many fun activities planned for our first months of school. We have spent September month learning about school, its rules, good manners and how to behave during the circle time, lunch time etc. During the circle time we learnt about the days of the week, dates, months, seasons. We can speak about the weather and how to dress up.
Once upon a time the little old woman and the little old man lived in a cottage. One day the little old woman made a gingerbread man. She gave him currants for eyes and cherries for buttons. She put him in the oven to bake. The little old woman and the little old man were very hungry and wanted to eat the gingerbread man. As soon as he was cooked,.
We have been very busy during last 4 weeks. Our theme has been Autumn.
Holding hands is the basic road safety rule for children and needs to be constantly reinforced. It is important that children and parents/carers understand that this means staying close to the adult on the footpath at all times, as well as when crossing the road. If hand cannot be held, then children should hold onto a buggy, bag or coat of the adult.
This week we are talking about the post and the letters. We learnt about Post Office and Postman’s job. We spoke about how the letters travel from sender to receiver. We prepared our own letters, addressed them to parents. We put our pictures inside from the first day in pre-school. We attached photos to the first page of Child’s Pre-school Passport. We are asking parents to fill the pages and.
Art & crafts: We cut papers into strips and then into small pieces. We used them to create apples. Montessori Work: We celebrated the Birthday Party. Thank you for the delicious cake. Art & Crafts: Paint an apple core. Gymboree Class Pre-writing activities and matching objects. Counting apples Extention excercises with Pink Tower Practical life: Laces We made letters a and A from play dough Which is different? Painting with.
The second week of September is behind us. We have started the Apple Theme. We learned that apples can be in different colours: red, green and yellow, they can taste sweet and sour. Apples can be soft or hard to bite. Next week we will learn more about the life cycle and the parts of the apple. More about apple theme you can find in the Theme Section. Kids learned.
We are off to a great start in the classroom. We have two sessions with the majority being ECCE kids. We have spent the first few days on settling in and this week we are going over the routine of the classroom and the rules. The lunch routine is also going well. The children are already setting up the table, chairs and mats and also cleaning their area when finished..
Week 1 Monday: About myself. My finger prints – I am unique. My sweet face Our Picnic We are safely coming back from picnic holding the rope. Football time Play-time Tuesday: Face craft Wedensday: Construction theme Friday: Pirate theme We finished our project – About myself and my house We are the Pirates!!! Creating pirate’s maps Week 2 Monday: Baking cookies Tuesday: Volcano theme Volcano craft Experiment – Volcano eruption.
Click on the picture below to see the “Theme description” Our activities Other Montessori Activities
With winter being upon us, I planned a series of learning activities about Arctic animals. Arctic animals are those that live in the Arctic region of the world. The Arctic region is located in the northernmost part of the Earth. It consists of the Arctic ocean and parts of Canada, Russia, Alaska, and a few Nordic countries. The animals that live in this region for all or part of the.
Below you can see my kids working with St. Valentine’s Day Theme material. Other activities:
Winter activities are presented on the separate page Winter Theme Below you can see what we did day by day when Winter Theme was our subject. Making the snowman from play-dough Making snowman from natural material. (semolina) Size sorting. How many snowmen? Counting activity. Counting elements of snowman. Big – small letter matching. Colouring snowmen. Experiment – feeling the ice cubes. Experiment – Melting ice cubes in few different environments..
We have had a wonderful music class today as a free trial from Gymboree. Kids thoroughly enjoyed it! We will be having these lessons one a month. Next one is planned on Friday 14th February.